Since I am very new to l5r. I was reading the instructions in the ivory edition and a few questions came to mind. Exactly how does cavalry work. Like if I have a unit attacking I can just bring another unit from home in? Do reserves work the same way as cavalry only they're infantry? And when attacking a province because the rules did little to explain this. Exactly how do you win. Does your total force have to be greater than the opponents force of both his troops and province combined? Or seperatly.
absolute beginner here
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Since I am very new to l5r. I was reading the instructions in the ivory edition and a few questions came to mind. Exactly how does cavalry work. Like if I have a unit attacking I can just bring another unit from home in?
From home, or from any other battlefield, as long as the Personality and all the Followers have the Cavalry keyword.
Do reserves work the same way as cavalry only they're infantry?
No, there is in fact a long list of differences. Reserve refers to bringing into play from a Province during the battle. This means you can't use Reserve with people already in play, it doesn't work. Plus it requires opposition (Cavalry works unopposed), plus you have to pay the Gold Cost when you use it, plus it's a Battle action (instead of Engage). Although their goal is to have one more ready unit at the battlefield, their mechanics are nowhere similar.
And when attacking a province because the rules did little to explain this.
Oh dear. Half of the Basic Rulebook is devoted to explaining this, isn't it enough?
Exactly how do you win. Does your total force have to be greater than the opponents force of both his troops and province combined? Or seperatly.
If you want to destroy the province, yes, greater than both the opponent's army and province strength combined. If the opponent has a F3 unit and Province Strength of 7, you need 11 Force in order to destroy the Province. If your Force is somewhere between 4 and 10 in this example, you still win the battle and destroy the defending army, but the Province is not destroyed (the sacrifice of the enemy army protected the lands long enough).